THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT is a Library Journal Best Books of 2025 pick
December 12, 2025 § 2 Comments
Stunned, thrilled, and obviously over-the-moon happy to learn that The Afterlife Project has been selected by Library Journal as one of their Best Books of 2025! This comes as a complete surprise, but it’s a true honor and I’m so pleased that it’s going to help this novel reach a larger readership.
Earlier in the year Library Journal gave the book a starred review, which you can read in full here.
Prominent book blogger picks THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT as a favorite science fiction book of 2025
December 9, 2025 § 3 Comments
It’s an honor to be in such excellent company as one of Tam Sparks (of Books, Bones & Buffy fame) Favorite Science Fiction books of 2025!
“A thrilling and immersive adventure story, The Afterlife Project combines complex, thoughtful themes with relatable characters and bittersweet emotion . . . Tim Weed’s latest novel is a gripping and emotional time travel/post apocalyptic adventure with a fair amount of science backing everything up. It’s also full of themes like found family and even a bit of romance, but mostly it’s an ode to our planet’s natural wonder and beauty, as well as a cautionary tale about humanity’s downfall. Weed masterfully tells his story in two timelines with a great deal of distance between them—more than 10,000 years!—and it’s surprisingly effective. . . Please do yourself a favor and consider reading The Afterlife Project, which deserves every bit of praise it’s received and is one of the best books I’ve read so far this year.”
See the whole list here.
Write on Four Corners with DelSheree Gladden: radio & podcast interview
September 25, 2025 § Leave a comment
Another in a series of highly enjoyable radio and podcast appearances in the aftermath of the publication of The Afterlife Project!
This thirty minute conversation with fellow novelist DelSheree Gladden on KSJE radio in Farmington, New Mexico will be especially interesting to writers, I think. Topics include climate fiction, the depth and complexity of fictional characters, the creative and research origins of The Afterlife Project, the bracing challenge of writing fiction that comes alive on the page while also getting at a deeper truth, balancing scientific research with story elements, Hemingway’s iceberg theory of fiction, revision as re-inhabiting stories like a vivid dream, the challenges and joys of teaching fiction, the power of literature, and the impact of stories on human affairs, the value of experiencing dark alternative futures, the enduring appeal of novels, and more. Listen here.
The Inner Game with Gwen Garcelon: radio & podcast interview on sacred nature and the new mythology
August 16, 2025 § Leave a comment
I LOVED this conversation with The Inner Game‘s Gwen Garcelon about THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT, spiritual evolution, animism, and the need for a new mythology to help us fulfill our destiny as a species to become the stewards rather than the exploiters of sacred nature. Listen to our 28 minute interview here – you won’t regret it! Also available on NPR podcasts.
THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT is one of New Scientist’s top books of the month
June 7, 2025 § Leave a comment
Such an honor to see that THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT has made this list in New Scientist, one of my favorite weekly popular science magazines.
In these troubling times, good communication about the latest trends and discoveries in science and technology is more important than ever, and New Scientist is among the very best. The fact that they also cover the latest fiction is an added bonus!
“What Does a Million Years Mean to You?” New booklist essay up at Literary Hub
June 4, 2025 § Leave a comment
Very happy to have this piece up at LitHub, one of my favorite literary on-line venues.
Excerpt below:
“The deep-time perspective of all these books has given me a better vantage point on the current moment, not only as it relates to the trajectory of the human species but also to the long and varied story of life on Earth. While I do fear that humanity’s circumstances are likely to get worse before they get better, the zoomed-out perspective of deep time has given me surprising new grounds for optimism.
To paraphrase Marcia Bjornerud in Timefulness, it’s not the end of nature we’re looking at, but the end of the illusion that we’re not part of nature.”
Read the whole piece here.
THE AFTERLIFE PROJECT excerpt up at Amazing Stories
April 18, 2025 § Leave a comment
It’s such an honor to be excerpted in the pages of this venerable old science fiction magazine – where such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Howard Fast, and Ursula K LeGuin published some of their early stories.
In case you want a little amuse-bouche before you order a copy of The Afterlife Project. Enjoy!
Tim Weed 